Morgan Stanley
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High yield rated UK supermarket chain Tesco has launched a new bond with investment grade style features to fund tender offers for eight outstanding bonds, just days after a recent rating upgrade from Fitch Ratings. -
British drinks manufacturer Diageo sold its largest euro corporate bond deal to date on Monday, when it sold a €2bn triple tranche deal. The proceeds are expected to be used to fund the share buy-back programme the company announced earlier in 2018.
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Innovent Biologics launched its Hong Kong IPO on Monday to raise HK$3.3bn ($422.2m), with over 60% of the shares already sold to a large contingent of cornerstone investors — many of them double-dippers.
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A global equity sell-off mid-week caused some jitters among bankers covering a live Kommunalbanken dollar deal on Wednesday, but the nervousness proved unfounded as the trade came through to acclaim. The deal was typical in a week where SSAs priced tight and with big books despite choppy wider markets.
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Kommunalbanken showed “the resilience of the dollar SSA market” as it printed a $1.5bn October 2021 Reg S/144A benchmark around its secondary level amid global market volatility on Thursday, said SSA bankers away from the deal.
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Dafa Properties Group raised HK$840m ($107.2m) when it priced a Hong Kong IPO a few cents above the middle of the marketed range this week.
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China’s Niu Technologies has launched bookbuilding for a $103.8m Nasdaq IPO, but despite plenty of pre-deal interest, sources said they did not expect the trade to be a blowout.
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SSAs are enjoying strong conditions in dollars, with KfW and the Province of Ontario finding plentiful demand on Wednesday despite bringing deals that on-looking bankers said were “pretty much” in line with secondaries. Kommunalbanken will price a dollar benchmark on Thursday that leads said was following a similar pattern.
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Studio City International Holdings launched its $359.4m New York Stock Exchange listing on Wednesday, in a deal heavily anchored by its controlling shareholders.
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Canaan, the world’s second largest maker of cryptocurrency mining equipment, is in a waiting game with the Hong Kong bourse for its IPO to be approved.
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Turbulence in China’s equities and bond markets forced Shimao Property Holdings to cull one portion of a dual-tranche dollar bond deal this week as investors shied away from the longer tenor.
